Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wooden platforms or stages were erected at different levels , so that men working on the various portions of the vehicle were facilitated in their task . |
| 32 | Many cotton warehouses displaying gridded elevations reminiscent of those of the mills themselves were erected in central Manchester , ‘ Cottonopolis ’ in the period leading up to the start of World War I , and the later the building , the more elaborate and showy was the architecture . |
| 33 | Of course we were fascinated by revolting food , and liked inventing horror meals . |
| 34 | Relative risks of in-hospital death were calculated with total numbers irrespective of survival time . |
| 35 | Rolling totals were calculated for successive three year periods : in 1985–7 there were 91 homosexual men who had a negative test followed by a positive one ; in 1986–8 there were 58 such men ; in 1987–9 there were 60 ; in 1988–90 there were 84 ; and in 1989–91 there were 97 ( table III ) . |
| 36 | For factors associated with a significant change ( p<0.05 ) in healing rate , odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals were calculated for healing rates at two , four , and eight weeks with regard to the individual risk factors and also in respect of all combinations of two of these risk factors . |
| 37 | Rectal CSA values in women showed a tendency of being slightly higher than male values at all pressure steps with a significant difference at 3 and 5 cm H 2 O. Biomechanical parameters were calculated from rectal CSA pressure relations . |
| 38 | Daily total caloric requirements were calculated from Long 's equation modified for ideal body weight . |
| 39 | Confidence intervals for the ratio of observed to expected numbers of patients with previous peptic ulcer were calculated from published tables for Poisson distributions . |
| 40 | Recurrence rates were calculated by lifetable analysis ( LTA ) and compared by the log rank test . |
| 41 | Net solute and water movements were calculated by standard formulae from the measured solute concentration and [ C ] -PEG counts in perfusate and effluent . |
| 42 | Confidence intervals and p values for relative risks were calculated by conditional exact methods based on the binomial distribution with the computer package EGRET . |
| 43 | Age adjusted rates were calculated by direct standardisation with the total sample as the standard . |
| 44 | Age standardised incidence figures were calculated by direct standardisation , using as reference the world standard population . |
| 45 | Almost all , except the poor peasant occupiers , were indicted as reactionary landlords . |
| 46 | A further 21 military and police officers were indicted on similar charges on Jan. 2 . |
| 47 | Hassan issued a public statement on Sept. 13 , 1989 , declaring that the hunger strikers were " not political detainees at all " but " common law detainees who were indicted for violent acts which harmed public security " . |
| 48 | On July 20 the former mayor of East Berlin , Eberhard Krack , and 12 associates were indicted for electoral fraud . |
| 49 | In fact , he would have made an ideal barrister — and he defended quite a lot of men who were indicted for various things — got them away because he was too cute for the superintendent who was dealing with the job . |
| 50 | Seven Arizona state legislators , four lobbyists and seven others were indicted in early February on charges which included bribery , money laundering and campaign-law violations . |
| 51 | Last week the trolley ladies involved in the ‘ ciggie sale ’ were reprimanded by embarrassed hospital officials . |
| 52 | These were emphasized by strategic tree planting or the placement of some other strong vertical element at the pinch point , thus reinforcing the narrowness of the road by creating a gateway . |
| 53 | Bearing in mind the threatened penalties to be imposed by the Registrar of Companies for late filing of accounts , meetings were arranged for formal approval of the financial statements by both the directors and members on 28 July 1992 , and I emphasised to my client the need to lodge a copy of the accounts with the Registrar by the end of July . |
| 54 | The card areas were arranged in various ways . |
| 55 | The embalmer glanced to check how close he was to a narrow shelf on which a series of knives were arranged in orderly rows . |
| 56 | In our silver and white table setting , the floral centrepieces were arranged in fluted loaf tins . |
| 57 | Wood veneer finishes with aluminum trim characterised the lounges and offices : zebra wood , holly , and walnut in the men 's lounge were arranged in abstract designs derived from railroad locomotives , cars , and signals ; panels of zebra and madrone wood covered the women 's lounge ; and gum , harewood , and holly were used in the offices along with cork flooring . |
| 58 | Mostly lessons were arranged in double periods . |
| 59 | Studies of this phenomena in Canada and Great Britain during the 1970s and some in the United States found little difference among older and younger teenagers in complications of pregnancy and delivery , and some of the observed difference , as for example , in prenatal complications , were explained by socio-economic factors , not by biological ones . |
| 60 | It is as if the years in between were inhabited by fragile observations , mere scratches and traces on the skin . |